Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-29

no admiration, But the Bible does not
say:. Believe in perdition and be
saved" Because all are saved, ac-
cording TO your theory, that ought not
10 keep you from loving and
SERVING CHRIST
DO not refuse to come ashore because
all tho others. according to your
theory, are going to get ashore. You
may have a different theory about
chemistry, about astronomy, about the
atmosphere, from that which others
adopt, but you are not therefore hinder
ed action. Because your theory Of
light is different from others, do not re-
fuse to open your eyes. Because your
theory Of air is different you do not re-
fuse to breath. Because your theory
about the stellar system is different,
you do not refuse to acknowledge the
North star. Why should the fact that
your theological theories are different,
hinder you from acting upon what you
know? If you ave not a whole ship
fashioned in the theological dry docks
to bring you to wharfage, you have at
least q plank: Some on broken
pieces Of the ship
But | don't believe in revivals!'
Then 90 to your room, and all alone
with your door locked give your heart
to God and join some church where the
thermometer never gets higher than
fifty in the shade. but | do no be-
lieve in Baptlsm!' Come in without
it, and settle that matter afterward.
bat there are so many Inconsistent
christians!" Then come in and show
them by a
GOOD EXAMPLE
how professors ought to act. but |
don't believe in the Old Testament!'
Then come in on the New. but |
do;.'t like the Book of Romans" Then
come IN on Matthew OF Luke. Rcfus-
ing 4 come TO Christ, whom You aG-
nit to be the Saviour of the lost, be-
cause YOU cannot admit other things,
in that Mediterranean tempest and
tossed in the Melita breakers, refusing
to come ashore until he can mend the
pieces of the broken ship. | hear him
say: Il won't 90 in on any of these
blanks until know in what part Of the
ship they belong. When | can get the
windlass in the right place, and the
sails set, and the kccl-piece where it
belongs, and that floor timber right,
and these ropes untangled. | will go
ashore. ] am an old sailor and know
all about ships for forty years, and rs
sOon as | can get the vessel atloat in
good shape ] will come in" A mar
DRIFTING
by on a piece of wood overhears him
and says: you will drown before
you get that ship reconstructed. Bet
ter do as | am doing. / know nothir 9
about ships. and never saw one before
| came on board this, and | cannot
swim a stroke, but | am going ashore
on this shivered timber" The man ia
the ofing while trying to
mend his ship goes Own. The
man who trusted TO the plank is saved.
O, my brother, let your smashcd-up
system of theology 90 to the bottom
while you come in on II splintercd
sparl. ''Some On broken pieces of the
ship"
You may get all your difficulties
settled rs Garibaldi, the magnetic Ital-
ian, got his gardens made. When the
war between Austria and Sardinia
broke out he was living ut Caprcra. a
very rough and uncultlvated inland
home. But he went forth with his
sword to achieve the liberation of Ma
pies and Sicily, and gave nine million
people free government under Victor
Emanuel.
~GARIBALDI,
after being absent two years from
Caprera, returned and, when he ap-
preached it, he found that his home
had by Victor Emanuel n n surprise
been Edcnized. Trimmed shrubbory
had taken the place of thorny thickets,
gardens the place of barrenness, and
the old rookery in which he once
lived had given way to
II pictured mansion where be
lived in comfort the rest of his days.
And | tell YOU if You will come and en-
list under the banner of our Victor
Emmanuel. and follow him, and fight
His battles, and endure His sacrifices,
you will find after n while that He In,
changed your heart from II Jungle OF
thorny skepticisms into
A GARDEN
all abloom with luXuriant JOY that you
have never dreampt of. From a tan
gled Caprera of sadness into a para
disc Of God!
do not know how your theological
system went to pieces. 1t may be that
your parents only started you with one
plank, and You believe little or moth
inc. Or they may have been too rigid
and severe in religious discipline, and
cracked you over the head with q
psalm-book. 1t may be hat some
partner in business who was II member
OF an evangelical church played on you
a trick that disguised you with re-
ligion. 1t may be that you have asso-
%ciates who talked against Christianity
in your presence until you are
call at sea- and Won dwell more on
things that you do not believe
than on things you do believe. You